Can I change the Quarto working directory in one line?

[posted]

The project structure looks like this:

root
├───image.png
└───quarto.qmd

In quarto.qmd, it has the following codes:

!["Image title"](./image.png)

Now I create a Quarto project, the file structure is changed to this:

root
├───script.R
├───image.png
└───quarto project
    └───quarto.qmd

I have 2 questions:

1. Can I change the default working directory in quarto.qmd to ../ in just one line? There are so many of the image and I don't want to change them one by one everytime.
2. Changing !["Image title"](./image.png) to !["Image title"](../image.png) somehow doesn't seem to work in a Quarto project. It seems to parse the path to root/.../image.png.

knitr::opts_knit$set(root.dir = '../') or

knitr:
  opts_knit:
    root.dir: "../"

seem to change only the code, not the image path.

[cderv]

Quarto project are meant to be the wider scope to use, meaning you can't really access some resources outside of the project, especially relatively (using ../quarto project).

So you won't be able to access images outside of the project. Basically, the answer is you can't change what a Quarto project means.

Why not use your root as the project ?

root
├───script.R
├───image.png
├───_quarto.yml
└───contents
    └───quarto.qmd

What drives the need to try change this ? If I can understand, I can probably give you advice on how to set up your project.